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King. Eisenhower. Mencken.   I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
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H.L. Mencken. Hunter S. Thompson. John Lewis.   In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common…
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Angela Davis. H.L. Mencken. Adlai Stevenson.   I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who…
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Joe Hill. H.L. Mencken. Aesop.   The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to…
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H.L. Mencken. Abraham Lincoln. Groucho Marx.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series…
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H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…
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H.L. Mencken. Albert Einstein. Hermione Gingold. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of…
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H.L. Mencken. George Orwell. Julian Barnes. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks…